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21-letter words containing r, e, c, u

  • credit life insurance — insurance guaranteeing payment of the unpaid portion of a loan if the debtor should die.
  • croscarmellose sodium — Croscarmellose sodium is a substance used in tablets and capsules as a disintegrant.
  • cross-cousin marriage — marriage between the children of a brother and sister.
  • crude oil dehydration — Crude oil dehydration is the removal of water or water vapor from crude oil, by separating the oil from the water, often in a rotating centrifuge.
  • customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
  • dance to another tune — to alter one's actions or opinions as a result of changed conditions
  • dataflow architecture — a means of arranging computer data processing in which operations are governed by the data present and the processing it requires rather than by a prewritten program that awaits data to be processed
  • dead from the neck up — stupid or unintelligent
  • deoxyribonucleic acid — DNA
  • department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
  • differential calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with differentials and derivatives.
  • discretionary account — an account in which the stockbroker is allowed complete control over the purchase and sale of securities on the customer's behalf.
  • disruptive technology — A disruptive technology is a new technology, such as computers and the Internet, which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that existed before.
  • distributed processes — (DP) The first concurrent language based on remote procedure calls.
  • draft once reuse many — (jargon)   (DORUM) Reusing parts of a document to produce parts of an entirely new document. The term normally refers to text documents but the practise is equally common in programming.
  • dutch reformed church — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • dwarf japanese quince — a low, shrubby, Japanese flowering quince, Chaenomeles japonica, of the rose family, having salmon-to-orange flowers and yellow fruit.
  • eccles-jordan circuit — flip-flop
  • eiffel source checker — A compiler front-end for Eiffel 3 by Olaf Langmack <[email protected]> and Burghardt Groeber. It was generated automatically with the Karlsruhe toolbox for compiler construction according to the most recent public language definition. The parser derives an easy-to-use abstract syntax tree, supports elementary error recovery and provides a precise source code indication of errors. It performs a strict syntax check and analyses 4000 lines of source code per second on a Sun SPARC workstation.
  • electric flux density — Electric flux density is electric flux passing through a unit area perpendicular to the direction of the flux.
  • electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
  • electronic publishing — Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM.
  • emitter coupled logic — (ECL) (Or "Current Mode Logic") A technology for building logic gates where the emitter of a transistor is used as the output rather than its collector. ECL has a propagation time of 0.5 - 2 ns (faster than TTL) and a power dissipation 3 - 10 times higher than TTL.
  • employee contribution — money contributed by an employee to his or her employer's pension fund
  • employer contribution — money contributed by an employer to his or her employee's pension fund
  • endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
  • enharmonic modulation — a change of key achieved by regarding a note in one key as an equivalent note in another. Thus E flat in the key of A flat could be regarded as D sharp in the key of B major
  • entrance requirements — the grades in school examinations required for admission to university
  • euro-commercial paper — commercial paper issued in a eurocurrency
  • european central bank — the central bank of the European Union, established in 1998 to oversee the process of European Monetary Union and subsequently to direct monetary policy within the countries using the euro
  • european space agency — an organization dedicated to space exploration with 18 European countries as members
  • exposure compensation — the act of overriding a camera's automatic exposure in order to achieve a particular effect or due to difficult lighting conditions
  • extended architecture — (storage)   (XA) A CD-ROM drive specification required by Green Book CD-ROM and White Book CD-ROM formats. Drives labelled "XA ready" may require a firmware upgrade.
  • faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
  • ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
  • financial underwriter — A financial underwriter is an insurance employee working in financial underwriting.
  • foreground processing — a type of processing that supports interaction between interactive and batch operations
  • fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
  • full faith and credit — the obligation under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution for each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
  • functional illiterate — a person with some basic education who still falls short of a minimum standard of literacy or whose reading and writing skills are inadequate to everyday needs.
  • functional imperative — a requirement for the survival of any social system, as communication, control of conflict, or socialization.
  • fundamental frequency — the lowest frequency at which a medium will freely oscillate.
  • gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
  • geiger-muller counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • general court-martial — a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.
  • get-rich-quick scheme — a scheme that promises to make a person extremely wealthy over a short period of time, often at with little effort and at no risk
  • gilt-edged securities — government securities on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
  • goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
  • government securities — securities issued by the US Government
  • gram-molecular weight — gram molecule. Abbreviation: GMW.
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